interview 01/04/2015 Kyrgyzstan will push for "close engagement" with EU says President Almazbek Atambayev Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev has been on an extended tour of Europe meeting major European Union leaders. He plans to go to Moscow soon to
Kyrgyzstan 04/06/2014 US returns Manas Airbase to Kyrgyzstan In another step in the exit from Afghanistan, the US has handed back its only Central Asian airbase to the government of Kyrgyzstan. The Manas
Mass wedding in Kyrgyzstan Fifty couples took part in a colourful mass wedding ceremony in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. The couples were selected by the Kyrgyz Ministry of
Kyrgyzstan 23/05/2013 Kyrgystan to close Manas air transport base Kyrgyzstan has reaffirmed plans to close the US air base that supports military operations in nearby Afghanistan. The United States pays 46 million
Kyrgyzstan 03/10/2012 Kyrgyz police clash with anti-government protesters There have been violent protests in Kyrgyzstan over the government’s refusal to nationalise a gold-mining venture with a Canadian company. Police
Kyrgyzstan 26/01/2012 Kyrgyz inmates sew lips together in prison protest More than 1,300 prisoners are said to have sewn their lips together with nearly 7,000 on hunger strike. Shock images of the protest have come from
Kyrgyzstan 30/10/2011 Kyrgyz PM out in front in presidential ballot The party of Kyrgyzstan’s Moscow-backed prime minister claim he has won the country’s presidential election. Almazbek Atambayev had been a
Kyrgyzstan 30/10/2011 Kyrgyzstan votes for a new president Kyrgyzstan is going to the polls to vote for a new president. The election is the result of reforms put in place after a bloody uprising toppled
Kyrgyzstan 16/08/2011 Dozens clamour to be Kyrgyzstan's leader Politics are popular in Kyrgyzstan where 83 people have tried to register to run for president. Election officials now have to see who of those
Producing Kumis in the Kyrgyzstan's mountain region For people living in the remote valleys of Kyrgyzstan’s mountain region, producing the traditional drink of fermented mare’s milk, ‘Kumis’, is often
interview 04/03/2011 Kyrgyzstan: Revolution politics Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva has played a key role in two revolutions. The first was ridding the country of its then leader, President
Kyrgyzstan 11/10/2010 Kyrgyzstan back on the road to democracy Kyrgyzstan has a new democratically elected parliament after Sunday’s landmark election. It brings an end to the autocratic rule which has
Kyrgyzstan 11/10/2010 Kyrgyzstan set to elect a coalition Kyrgyzstan looks set to produce a coalition government despite nationalists narrowly coming out ahead of four other parties in Sunday’s
Kyrgyzstan 10/10/2010 Kyrgyzstan elects newly-empowered parliament Voting has ended in Kyrgyzstan in elections designed to create Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy. Until April the country was, like its
Kyrgyzstan 10/10/2010 Kyrgyzstan elects its newly empowered parliament Kyrgyzstan is holding elections today aimed at creating Central Asia’s only parliamentary democracy. But deep political and ethnic divisions remain
Kyrgyzstan 10/10/2010 Historic vote in troubled Kysgyzstan Security is tight in Kyrgyzstan today as the country votes in an election that interim leaders hope will unite the country – but opponents fear could
Kyrgyzstan 09/10/2010 Tension as Kyrgyzstan prepares to vote Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls on Sunday in elections that many hope will transform the country into the most stable parliamentary democracy in
Kyrgyzstan 08/10/2010 Historic election in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls this Sunday in an election that will create Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy. An interim government has
Kyrgyzstan 07/10/2010 Kyrgyzstan tense ahead of election Kyrgyzstan holds an election on Sunday that its leaders hope will unite the country – but which opponents fear could trigger violence and more
Kyrgyzstan 20/08/2010 Osh protesters defy Kyrgyzstan government There have been more signs of dissent in Kyrgyzstan’s troubled south, against the former Soviet Republic’s interim government. “We want our mayor
